This week, Jon Huntley, senior economist at the Penn Wharton Budget Model, came on to discuss the budgetary and economic impact of the infrastructure package. Rune Christensen, the co-founder of MakerDAO, joined to talk DeFi and decentralized s

Serial SPAC-er Betsy Cohen Finds Her Seventh Target

Aug 7th, 2021 28m 21s

Serial SPAC dealmaker Betsy Cohen joined to talk about finding her seventh target, Pico, a New York-based technology provider for financial services companies that merged with FTAC Athena Acquisition Corp. in a $1.75 billion blank-check company

Companies Have Lost the Distinction Between Data and Information

Jul 31st, 2021 27m 27s

This week, NYU Stern School of Business finance professor Aswath Damodaran, joined to talk about why corporate earnings reports and regulatory filings keep getting longer, and why it's not necessarily a good thing for investors. Professor Damod

Crypto Investors Are Used to Volatility

Jul 24th, 2021 27m 37s

This week, Grayscale Investments CEO Michael Sonnenshein joined to react to bitcoin's selling off below $30,000 and said crypto investors are used to the volatility. Chairman and CEO of United Wholesale Mortgage Mat Ishbia went through this wee

Why There's a Six-Month Wait for Garage Doors

Jul 17th, 2021 30m 53s

This week, Binance.US CEO Brian Brooks joined along with Bloomberg Wall Street correspondent Sonali Basak to talk about hiring ex-regulator Manuel Alvarez and why regulation does not have to be a bad thing for the crypto space. Alyse Killeen, t

Why Truck Drivers Are So Hard to Find Right Now

Jul 10th, 2021 25m 33s

This week, Chad Cascarilla, the co-founder and CEO of Paxos, a regulated blockchain platform that has its own stable coin, came on to talk the use and regulation of stable coins. Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder and CEO of FTX, a cryptocurrency d

Global Liquidity Could Be Reaching Inflection Point

Jun 26th, 2021 29m 55s

This week, Mercury Group CEO Adam Posner came on to talk about bottlenecks in the global supply chain and why there have been astronomical jumps in shipping rates. Audacity Capital founder and general partner Erikan Obotetukudo discussed formin

Investing is Now a Pop Culture Phenomenon

Jun 19th, 2021 36m 39s

This week, Gary Vaynerchuk, who is a board member of the sports memorabilia company Candy, CEO of VaynerMedia, and has a new NFT project called VeeFriends, joined to talk about the resurgence in trading cards, how investing has become a pop cul

Elizabeth Warren's Plan to Tame the "Wild West" of Crypto

Jun 12th, 2021 31m 51s

Heather Boushey, a member of President Biden's Council of Economic Advisers, joined to discuss the jobs report and the why payrolls keep falling short of expectations. Ali Wolf, the chief economist at Zonda, a housing data and research firm, ca

AMC Embraces the Meme Stock Frenzy

Jun 5th, 2021 27m 31s

This week, Roshun Patel, vice president of institutional lending at Genesis, a full-service digital currency prime brokerage, joined to talk about the asset class that never sleeps: crypto, and its wild weekend trading. Chad Beynon, a senior ga

There's No Muscle Memory for How to Handle This Recovery

May 29th, 2021 31m 46s

This week, Stinson Dean, Deacon Lumber Company CEO, came back on to talk about why lumber is caught in another market standoff. Jill Carlson, Slow Ventures principal and co-founder of the Open Money Initiative, returned to discuss whether she t

A 30% Dip is Just Another Wednesday in Crypto

May 22nd, 2021 32m 26s

This week, Christie's CEO Guillaume Cerutti, joined to talk about their spring auction, which included a group of nine Cryptopunks NFTs and the future of digital art. Mike Novogratz, the founder and CEO of Galaxy Digital, reacted to Monday's vo

Bitcoin Has No Plan. It Could Even Go Down.

May 15th, 2021 35m 14s

This week, Rick Palacios, principal and director of Research at John Burns Real Estate Consulting, went through the latest in the lumber market frenzy and the impact on the U.S. housing market. Bloomberg Opinion columnist Conor Sen and Neil Dut

Grab Your Copper $10,000 Hats

May 1st, 2021 26m 50s

This week, Emily Weis, State Street emerging markets strategist, explained what was behind copper's record week and driving the metal to $10,000. Nir Kaissar, a Bloomberg Opinion columnist and the founder of Unison Advisors, argued why he think

Paul Krugman Thinks Trade Policy Has Always Been Overrated

Apr 24th, 2021 27m 41s

This week, Mario Stefanidis, Roundhill Investments vice president of research, who actively manages the firm's sports-themed MVP ETF, joined to talk about the investment side of the short-lived European Super League. Ali Wolf, chief economist a

The Lumber Market is Full of Cowboys

Apr 17th, 2021 27m 10s

This week, Jeff Korzenik, joined to talk about his new book "Untapped Talent: How Second Chance Hiring Works for Your Business and the Community" and why people with criminal backgrounds should not be employees of last resort. Binance.US CEO Ca

What History Tells Us About the Difference Between Hyperinflation and Inflation

Apr 11th, 2021 26m 49s

This week, Alon Levy, a fellow at NYU's Marron Institute, joined to discuss why the U.S. is not good at infrastructure and why public works projects carry a higher price tag in the U.S. as compared with other countries. Diogo Monica, the co-fou

It's Hard to be a Bear Right Now

Apr 3rd, 2021 29m 9s

Joshua Younger, head of U.S. interest rate derivatives strategy at J.P. Morgan, joined to talk about the worst quarter for Treasuries since 1980. Yesha Yadav, law professor at Vanderbilt Law School and former legal counsel for the World Bank, d

The I Word

Mar 27th, 2021 29m 13s

This week, Jason Tuvey, Capital Economics senior emerging markets economist, joined to talk about the sharp selloff in Turkish assets after President Erdogan ousted the country's central bank governor and what comes next for the country's econo

$1.9 Trillion in Stimulus is Coming. Will Inflation Follow?

Mar 13th, 2021 41m 47s

This week, Ursual Burns, the former Xerox CEO and first black woman to lead a Fortune 500 company discussed the gap between companies' rhetoric and results on International Women's Day. Tim Duy, SGH Macro Advisors economist, University of Orego

Could a Commodity Supercycle Be Upon Us?

Feb 27th, 2021 24m 40s

This week, Emily Weis, emerging market strategist at State Street, went through the implications of Brazilian President Bolsonaro firing the CEO of the state-run oil company Petrobras and the outlook for emerging markets. Scott Irwin, the Laure

The Perfect Storm Comes for the Texas Electrical Grid

Feb 20th, 2021 28m 22s

This week, Josiah Neeley, the Texas director and resident senior fellow for energy at the R Street institute, spoke about some reforms that could prevent the energy crisis in Texas from happening again. Jason Bordoff, a Columbia Unversity profe

What People Get Wrong About Bitcoin's Climate Footprint

Feb 13th, 2021 27m 53s

This week, Michael Saylor, the MicroStrategy CEO-turned-king of bitcoin treasuries, called upon fellow business executives to avoid the path of financial “serfdom” and outlined a strategy for corporate bitcoin adoption. Nic Carter, the founding

Checks Are In Right Now

Feb 6th, 2021 32m 55s

This week, Ken Lewis, the CEO of ApMex, often called the Walmart of precious metals, came on to talk about the record demand he saw for silver as the hoard of Reddit-fueled retail traders discovered the commodity market and drove silver to its

The GameStop Stock Market Slash Mobs are Here to Stay

Jan 30th, 2021 34m 37s

This week was one like no other with GameStop taking over the markets, internet and zeitgeist and What'd You Miss covered the story from all sides. Benn Eifert, principal and chief investment officer at QVR Advisors, explained the gamma squeeze